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NITED STATES PATENT FFIQE.

\VILLIAM P. HALE, OF BROGKPORT, NEW YORK.

PADDLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,999, dated April 27, 1880.

Application filed March 8, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM P. HALE, of Brockport, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Paddle-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

The nature of my invention relates particularly to canal-boats; and it consists in the construction of the paddle-wheel, and in the construction and combination of devices for running and adjusting the same, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2, a central vertical section on the line a? 01:,Fig.l; and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are details of parts of my invention.

A represents the canal-boat, made preferably with two hulls and the wheel placed in the center.

The wheel is constructed of two spiders or skeleton-wheels,B B,with a series of paddles, O, secured between them at equal distances apart. These paddles are made of metal, and have their outer edges on a curved line from one end to the other, for the purpose of easy steerage when the wheel runs on the bottom The edge of the bucket or paddle is rolled over an iron rod, to, for the purpose of stifienin g the bucket, and also for making a round edge that will not injure a cable laid on the bot-tom of the canal; or the paddles may be made, of wood having a metal edge. The wheel thus constructed is secured on a shaft, 1), which is hungin two oscillating arms, D D, pivoted upon studs (Z d.

The wheel is on one side provided with a gear-wheel, E, which meshes with a loose pinion or intermediate gear-wheel, F, on one of the studs d,,thereby allowing the gear-wheels to keep in mesh in whatever position the water-wheel may be, high or low. The pinionF (No model.)

gears with another pinion, 6, upon a shaft, f, near one end. Near the other end of this sh aft is secured a friction-wheel, h, which runs within a compound friction-wheel, G, attached to the crank-shaft H and driven by the engine. The end of the shaft f to which the frictionwheel IL is attached has its bearing in a pivoted lever, I, so arranged that when said lever stands upright the wheel h will be free from contact with either friction-surface of the compound wheel G, and then the paddle-wheel remains at rest.

When the lever is pulled back the wheel h is brought in contact with the inner frictionsurface and puts the machinery in motion, and when the lever I is pushed forward the wheel h is thrown in contact with the outer friction-surface, and the machinery is put in motion three times as fast as when the lever was pulled back; but the motion is in the opposite direction, so that the boat may be run three times as fast by the outside friction as with the inside by reversing the engine.

It will thus be seen that my paddle-wheel may be run on the bottom of the canal, and also as a paddle-wheel in deep water, and it accommodates itself to the unevenness of the bottom.

The front end of each arm D is provided with a cogged segment, J, which two segments mesh with pinionsi i on a shaft, m, for the purpose of keeping the wheel square with the boat, and also'for raising the wheel when it cannot reach bottom and using it as a paddlewheel.

On one end of the shaft m is a gear-wheel,

K, meshing with a crank-pinion, L, for the pur- Y 1), carrying the paddle-wheel B G, the cogmy own I affix my signature in presence of Wheel E, intermediate gear-Wheel, F, and the two witnesses. shaft f, with pinion e and friction-Wheel h, and the compound friction-Wheel G on the shaft H, WILLIAM HALE 5 driven by the engine, substantially as and for Witnesses:

the purposes herein set forth. \V. O. MOARTHUR,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as GAROLUS LEOPOLDUS EVERT. 

